Walter Smith

Staff

Staff record

staff is the non-playing subtype of person: people this export decoded as staff rather than as players. It is only one of the three places a career can live. Plenty of well-known managers have no staff row at all — some are stored as players, and many sit in person_unclassified, whose subtype the decoder could not determine. Whichever table a person is in, their jobs come from staff_history joined to job_type, which is the table below.

Current ability
164
Potential ability
170
Home reputation
163
Current reputation
163
World reputation
130
International appearances
0
Coaching qualification
—

Ability and the three reputations are the raw game figures, which run to roughly 200 rather than to 20 — they are printed exactly as stored and nothing is converted. coaching_qualification is a badge level with no lookup table in the export, so it is shown as the stored number and no name is invented for it.

Calculated at game start

Age at game start
65
Reputation
Continental 2.0 / 5 stars
Coaching style
—
Preferred mentality
—
Preferred playing style
—
Preferred pressing style
—

Football Manager's own game-start calculations from the attributes above, ported from the game's rules by the enriched overlay (method in each value's tooltip). Coaching scores use the game's FM22 training categories applied to every release and leave out the secondary-job and injury reductions; a dash is a value the rule had no input for, and board members have no reputation label.

Appearance

Ethnicity code
0
Hair colour code
6
Hair length code
5

Raw codes from the source. The export carries no lookup table for any of them, so they are shown as stored and are not given names.

Non-playing ability

A staff_ability row exists, but none of its 26 values are recorded.

Coaching

A staff_coaching row exists, but none of its 6 values are recorded.

Tactical style

A staff_tactical_style row exists, but none of its 17 values are recorded.

Career spells

Marked current: 5 of 15 spells. A spell counts as current when date_left is empty or falls in the future — the source records plenty of long-finished spells with no end date, so more than one spell can carry the mark.

Career spells from staff_history, in the order the export wrote them.
ClubRoleFromToStatus
Ashfield Player — 1966-11-15 Ended
Dundee United Player — — Current
Dumbarton Player — — Current
Dundee United Player — — Current
Dumbarton Player — — Current
Dundee United Player — — Current
Dundee United Player / Coach 1977-06-30 1980-06-30 Ended
Dundee United Coach 1980-06-30 1986-06-30 Ended
Rangers Assistant Manager 1986-07-01 1991-04-16 Ended
Rangers Manager 1991-04-16 1998-05-31 Ended
Everton Manager 1998-07-01 2002-03-01 Ended
Manchester United Assistant Manager 2004-03-03 2004-05-30 Ended
Rangers Manager 2007-01-10 2011-05-30 Ended
Rangers Director 2012-11-11 2013-05-30 Ended
Rangers Chairman 2013-05-30 2013-08-05 Ended

National-team spells

National-team spells from person_nation_contract.
NationRoleFromToStatus
Scotland Manager 2004-12-02 2007-01-10 Ended

Club contract

Club
Rangers
Team
—
Joined
—
Contract start
—
Expires
—
Weekly wage
£0

Languages

No languages are recorded in person_language for this person.

Retirement

Retirement facts from person_retirement.
TypeDate
Hands-on-role non-player retirement 2012-07-01

Relations and preferences

Liked clubs

ClubRating
Everton 20
Dundee United 70
Rangers 100

Disliked clubs

ClubRating
Celtic 100
Liverpool 70

Liked people

Disliked people

Personal information

Date of birth
1948-02-23
Nationality
Scotland
Birth city
Lanark

Personality

Personality is stored on the same 1–20 scale as the attributes, and is shown exactly as recorded. A dash is a value the export did not record, which is not a zero.

Adaptability 11
Ambition 20
Controversy 3
Loyalty 18
Pressure 19
Professionalism 18
Sportsmanship 18
Temperament 14